Algerian cartoonist Tahar Djehiche given jail sentence over cartoons

Algerian cartoonist Tahar Djehiche, who was acquitted in May on charges of insulting Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and inciting a riot, has been found guilty on the government’s appeal. He has been sentenced to six months in jail and fined 500,000 dinars. One of Djehiche’s offending cartoons, posted on Facebook, shows the president at the bottom of an hourglass getting buried in the sand.